{"id":1502,"date":"2009-06-19T09:58:38","date_gmt":"2009-06-19T13:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=1502"},"modified":"2009-06-19T10:41:40","modified_gmt":"2009-06-19T14:41:40","slug":"new-us-patent-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/06\/19\/new-us-patent-boss\/","title":{"rendered":"New U.S. Patent Boss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama <a title=\"will nominate IBM's David Kappos\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eetimes.com\/news\/latest\/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=218100214\" target=\"_blank\">will nominate IBM&#8217;s David Kappos <\/a>as director of the Patent and Trademark Office and under secretary of Commerce for intellectual property.\u00a0 School of Law Professor <a title=\"Michael Meurer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/faculty\/profiles\/bios\/full-time\/meurer_m.html\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Meurer<\/a>, an authority on patent law, says the appointment is a good sign &#8220;<em>for those of us who hope the patent system can be reformed to better serve the interests of innovators<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Contact Michael Meurer, 617-353-6292, <a href=\"mailto:meurer@bu.edu\">meurer@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama will nominate IBM&#8217;s David Kappos as director of the Patent and Trademark Office and under secretary of Commerce for intellectual property.\u00a0 School of Law Professor Michael Meurer, an authority on patent law, says the appointment is a good sign &#8220;for those of us who hope the patent system can be reformed to better [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1303,1302,1301,1086],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1502"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1507,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502\/revisions\/1507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}